Richard Morgan (actor)
Richard Morgan ( born August 12, 1958 in Hobart, Tasmania, † December 23, 2006 in Melbourne, Victoria) was an Australian actor.
Life
Morgan began his acting career in 1975 with guest roles in Australian television series. Between 1976 and 1983 he played one of the main roles of the series The Sullivans, which dealt with the life of an Australian family in the time of the Second World War. After the series had been discontinued, he took a recurring guest role on the soap opera Sons and Daughters. He also had roles in movies such as Phar Lap - Legend of a nation by Simon Wincer and Farewell to the King by John Milius.
In 1990 he left the show business and only began almost ten years later to work as an actor again. After a few guest roles in 1999 he got a recurring role in the crime drama Stingers. As in his 2005 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was diagnosed, he withdrew from public life and finally succumbed to the disease in late 2006.